Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on July 27, 2010 by CyberNet.

We recently wrote about Any Video Converter, which is one of the best tools I’ve come across for batch converting those videos you have laying around. Last week I found a new app called XMedia Recode (English translation) for Windows, which is both free and portable. What makes this app so unique is the extensive number of built-in profiles that are included.

What benefits do these profiles offer? They mean you can convert videos to use on your mobile device without having to think about the optimal screen resolution or supported video format. You can just select your device, optionally review/tweak the recommended settings, and kick off the encoding. Does this app have a profile for your device? Probably. It includes profiles for about 35 manufacturers including popular ones like Apple (~35 devices/profiles), Motorola (~25 devices/profiles), HTC (~35 devices/profiles), and many others.

Here’s how simple the process is:

1. Drag-and-drop videos from your computer into the file pane located underneath the toolbar.
2. Select the video(s) you want to convert in the list (you can use Ctrl/Shift+Click to select more than one)
3. On the Format tab select your profile.
4. Click the Add Job toolbar button to queue up the video(s).
5. Repeat steps 2-4 until you’ve finished queuing everything up.
6. Click the Encode button to kick off the processing.

If you want you can dive through the additional tabs to configure advanced video and audio settings, or even specify a specific portion of the video to convert.

The only downside? Like most other video converters this one can take some time to process a file. In my experience it is about 1.5 times the length of the video, but that also depends on the starting/ending formats as well as how powerful your machine is. It’s a portable and free app… so there’s no harm in giving it a whirl for yourself.

XMedia Recode Homepage (Windows only; Freeware)

Supported video formats include: 3GP, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AC3, AMR, ASF, AVI, AVISynth, DVD, FLAC, FLV, H.261, H.263, H.264, M4A , M1V, M2V, M4V, Matroska (MKV), MMF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, TS, TRP, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4V, MOV, QT, OGG, PSP, (S) VCD , SWF, VOB, WAV, WMA and WMV.

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Google’s new Chromecast is limited. But it will play lots of files on your television — including things like Flash streams and MKVs you’ve downloaded from, say, a torrent tracker.

Pioneer is releasing Blu-ray disk player “BDP-160″ with Wi-Fi Direct functionality that allows wireless connections to smart devices without a Wi-Fi environment.

“BDP-160″ also has Wi-Fi functionality so it can connect to a smartphone wirelessly by using a Wi-Fi network.

It’s able to play smartphone/PC contents, 3D still image file (MPO), BD-R/RE(BDAV), DVD (AVCREC/VR mode/CPRM), AVCHD images. Also, JPEG, MP3, WMA, WMV, FLAC, MKV etc files saved in USB memory can be playable.

It has an HDMI terminal, optical digital output terminal, analog 2ch audio output terminal, LAN terminal and USB terminal.

Release date: June
Size: 435 mm x 58 mm x 250 mm
Weight: 2 kg

Century, the company that brought us the HDD Stage Rack or the HDD USB SATA and IDE Dock, announced today the launch of the CROSU2TV, a USB 2.0 HDD Stage Rack with HDMI out and support of pretty much every SD or HD Videos format on the market including DB-ISO! Announced at 12,800 Yen and available from today onward the CROSU2TV is the perfect little buddy for every Geek and Video fans, pity though that we are limited to USB 2.0 only!

Here you are another android HDMI Stick the ADH-41. Sold in Japan by Geanee, the ADH-41 comes by default with Android 4.0, a microSD/SDHC reader, 4GB of internal memory (OS), a 1GHz TCC8925 Cortex-A5 CPU, 512MB of RAM, for just 25.5g and a size of 26x82x15mm! The ADH-41 will be sold in Japan around December 21 at around 7,980 Yen!